Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-09-17


stricken down by myriad drinks. Here are
some of the mineral waters:
APERIENTs AND ToNIcs
Congress, Empire, Kissingen, tartrate OF
soda; Deep Rock and Saratoga (Vichy), self
ger, Gettysburg and bitter Kissngen, all of
which are aperients, especially the last. The
bitterness is due to the sulphate of magnesia.
NIchy and Llthia make good drink for per
sons whose kidneys are out Of gear So, too
bethesda, the famous spring at Waukesha.
WIS, which is put up and sent all over the
country, Iron water is tonic. IL has
taste OF rusty nails, and is slightly nsipid I'M
less taken very cold. One Of the best springs
at Manitou, that lovely resort ia Colorado
which Is peIched at the mouth of a canyon, is
of iron water. The Blue Lick suIphur spring,
Kentucky water. las larger proportion Of
sulphur than any of the waters There Is,
however, spring of sulphuretted hydrogen
at Beck's, three miles from Salt Lake City,
Utah, which Is so strong that quaffing a glass
oil its water Is like drinking hard boiled
egg. 1t ought to satisfy hunger as well as
thirst The Gettysburg, from the historic
war ground of Pennsy ylvania; the Bethesda,
tile Geyser and the Poland are the natural
waters as rule. Vichy is good corrective
of the acidity which sometimes accompanies
full meal Vichy aud caiisaya make u good
tonic and appetizer.
After mineral waters come small beer. the
artleSs mineral vegetable beer known to chill.
dren forty years ago, and still extant, sarsa-
pariila. root and pop. Weiss beer is some
what OF the nature Of pop. Then come the
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| monuments of marble and silver found in ths
drugglsts'. Soda water is q great American
beverage. 1t is drink that ladies take to
kindly A young woman will call for vanilla
soda, take the frothy beaker in her band
gioved in Swedish kid, absorb three sips
while she convulsively clings to her music
| roll, four boxes tied up with pink strings, &
box Of chocolates, an umbrella and her pocket
book with her left arm then deposit the gIass
on the counter to rally from the Intoxicating
draught take another header and consume
| five swallows more, bring the glass to resi-
again, aud 81 on.
SYRIPs AND NERVE FOODS
| The list of syrups is long Coffee, choco
late, ginger, strawberry. orgeat jalnond,
pineapple, vanilla tthe prime favorite), rasp
| berry, lemon, sarsaparilla, catawba, spice
| wild cherry, hook, French currant, tea. gin
| ger ale, claret, maple, cream, nectar, apricot
blackberry, red orange and malt You paw
| your money and you take your choice, ol
| rather yon take your choice and then pa,
your money, as the pay varies slightly accord
| ing to the choice, and may he five cents Of q
| blooming quarter.
Garrlck punch, eggnog, milk punch and
| Broadway punch also figure on the list. Tber
| there is another list of the health promoters
In this one finds wine of coca with orange)
elixir of calisaya bark, coca calisaya, calisays
and iron, wine of pepsine, beef, wine and
| iron, angostura bltters, cayenne ginger lextrs
| hotl, nerve foods by the dozen, phosphate.
| and kumyss The peIsine, the name in
| dicates, rs digester Ii is usually made from
| the gastric juice of hogs stomach. IL
| France they use calf's stomach for the pur
| pose. II there is a creature on earth Who's
| digestive apparatus is perfect it must he The
| hog. Can imagination picture a dyspeptit
swinea A pig is peptic to the last degree
| Cayenne ginger extra hot is cooler, prob
ably, then the Internal fires, hut, whew
fancy draught of this when the air is un
| duating TO the pitch of 81 degrees in th,
shaded Yet some old bricklined fellows, with
| white waistcoats and Manilla hats, will bolt {
dose of it as if it were Mrs Winsiow' soothing
syrup Gaspi Not they. Not wink; not /
| flicker 'Tis oil To their torrid stomaclis =
| New York Star.